Just testing out a watermark...I've been meaning to add one for awhile now. I think I want to make it a little bigger.

Oh and let me explain the picture. I was coming home from a memorial and there were these two pigs crossing the road. So police department got called (threw in some pig jokes...ok hey my dad's retired so I can make pig/police jokes lol). Yes the pigs were caught after much chasing by police officers hahaha.

Ok I think I like this better and I can always shrink it myself :) Just faded it a little.

Seriously, I don't know if I can make it 8 more days. I have to though. Just got a job request for June 6th which is two days (TWO DAYS) before school gets out. Am I nuts for subbing the last week of school, let alone two days before school is out?

A substitute yesterday pulled me aside and asked if I was subbing next week. I said, yeah sure why not? I've done it before. Hey, I've even subbed the last two days of school in kindergarten before. She told me she's blocking herself online (we have an online sub system in this particular district) and won't work next week. Ok dear, you do that :)

I subbed in music today and the teacher actually wanted me to sing (doesn't she know my voice will scare the kids?!) lol instead of a video that she normally has subs do. Even the kids said, "Where's the movie screen?" and I heard some sighs as I said we were singing, especially since the kinder and first grade have a performance tonight. So we were practicing their songs and one little boy was acting goofy. Bless my heart when another kiddo said, "Ms. T, they shouldn't be goofing around or they'll be an embarrassment to their families tonight and they'll wanna disown you!" I tried so hard not to bust out laughing.

As their reward, I played a game that we decided to call freeze dance. I played music and they dance and then pushed pause and they had to freeze. People, I tell you that they ate this up! We ended up doing this for about 10 minutes in my three afternoon classes. One girl told me this was the best music class ever lol.

I took pictures of a project I did with kids yesterday but haven't uploaded them yet. I'll save that for another day...it's been a busy day. I just got back from a retirement party and I'm headed for another volunteer thing stuffing 350 bags for the seniors.

This weekend I helped out a few neighbors and it was my pleasure! One had me fish sit her Betta while she was camping. She told me it was okay if it died because it was kind of sick. So every day I checked on it when I went to feed hit, praying it wasn't dead. It survived! But it had a weird fungus thing which I think is called Ich. Plus some mouth fungus that looked like this:

Then another neighbor came over and her oven was broken. So I ended up baking her brownies while I was cooking my dinner. The house smelled really good!

My neighborhood has always been close. Someone needs sugar or an egg, just borrow! I think I've even lent flour, eggs, well maybe everything for a cake at one point lol. One neighbor, if she borrows, will bring me part of the result from what she borrowed. I'm happy to lend to her anytime! Haha. She's an amazing baker.

As a sub, I try to be neighborly to the other teachers, because it's nice and you never know if you'll need their help. Like today, I helped out my neighbor (she was my co-teacher today too) and then in the afternoon she wanted to reciprocate and as my kiddos finished their art project and work, she took mine out to recess.

Don't get me wrong, there are some odd and rude neighbors, but 95% of the neighborhood rocks! We have National Night Out in August and do a potluck. And at Christmas time, about 8 houses do a progressive dinner. It's so much fun! We hop house to house and start out with appetizers and end up with dessert. One year we traveled house to house in the snow. One of my best memories ever!

This quote made me laugh:

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.Arthur Baer

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